Tritia Toyota (born March 29, 1947) is a former Los Angeles television news anchor and a current adjunct assistant professor in anthropology, Asian-American studies and the media at the University of California at Los Angeles.[1]

Toyota began her broadcast career in Los Angeles in 1970 as a radio reporter with KNX-AM.[4] In January 1972 she was hired as a general assignment reporter at KNBC-TV; she became weekend anchor there in 1975, and was promoted to the 5 p.m. news in late 1977 followed by the 11 p.m. newscast in 1978.

Toyota quit KNBC in March 1985 and, after a standard three-month period between contracts, signed on as a news anchor at KCBS-TV, where she was reunited with many of her fellow KNBC alumni (Jess Marlow and John Schubeck).

Initially anchoring at 6 and 11 p.m., by the early to mid 1990s Toyota was relegated to the morning and midday newscasts. On November 17, 1999, the Los Angeles Times reported that Toyota had left KCBS and that she previously had been removed from early morning and noon newscasts in September and October 1999. The story also reported that Toyota had been offered an opportunity to continue at the station and that she had declined. Toyota is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA. In 2009 she published a book "Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging".

Los Angeles punk rock band The Dickies recorded a song called "(I'm Stuck in a Pagoda with) Tricia Toyota." It is unclear whether the misspelling of Toyota's first name was deliberate or accidental.[6]

Tritia Toyota will present “Who's Nikkei? 21st Century Community Transformations” at a public forum on Sunday, Jan. 25, at 1 p.m. at West L.A. United Methodist Church. The topic is much discussed within the community. With the advent of multiple ...

Tritia Toyota, adjunct professor of the departments of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA, stated in an e-mail that the project's Archival Collection Endowment is “an enormously important contribution to the study of Americans of Japanese ...

Woo's political clout in Chinatown "afforded his son front-row seats at an ongoing performance that included the major actors in Los Angeles city politics" over more than 30 years, author and academic Tritia Toyota wrote in her 2009 book, "Envisioning ...

But exceptionality does not make for typicality in any kind of study, so that's what we have to keep in mind,” said Tritia Toyota, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Large gaps are found in almost all of the ...

But exceptionality does not make for typicality in any kind of study, so that's what we have to keep in mind,” said Tritia Toyota, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Large gaps are found in almost all of the ...

Commencement finally came seven decades later for Japanese American former students who had been forced to leave UCLA and enter internment camps at the beginning of World War II. To receive their honorary degrees, 48 of the nearly 200 students in ...